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...beloved by his troops. He was demanding, but fair: he saw to it that officers looked out for their men. He mixed with the common soldiers in the mud and they respected him. Besides being commander of all U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, he was Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff and commander of all Chinese troops in Burma and India. He was on the same terms with the Chinese G.I. (he spoke efeven Chinese dialects) as with Americans...
Full of authority in a field command, he was no diplomat: he got lost in the jungles of Chinese and British high imperial policy. Chiang asked for his recall, and President Roosevelt consented...
...Chiang Kai-shek won his greatest' victory in years over the Communists last week: General Fu Tso-yi's army marched into scorched and abandoned Kalgan, the Reds' Great Wall "show place." Because Kalgan's fall convinced many that Chiang could take Harbin or any other large Chinese city (as long as he had U.S. help), the victory held a happy political significance for Chinese Nationalists who believe with Chiang that the Communists can be beaten into agreement...
However, U.S. General George C. Marshall and Ambassador Leighton Stuart have been impressed by the Communist threat that if Chiang took Kalgan the Reds would begin all-out civil war in a "total national split." For those who started from that premise, the fall of Kalgan held an unhappy political significance...
Within the next month the Communists would have to make up their minds between 1) guerrilla war, 2) a separate state inaccessible to Chiang's armies or 3) peace on terms in which a Chinese Government can function without a Communist veto (see below...